Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education was recently favorably reviewed by the New York State Education Department] says "in making nut bread the pupils learn to add, subtract & multiply." A similar method of education was used in England in the time of Charles Dickens. In Nicholas Nickleby, the schoolmaster, Squeers, gave the verb "weed" to be spelled, defined and conjugated by the class and then sent them out to weed the garden...
...strongest ally of "Boston's Original Roosevelt Man" has in the past been Boston's non-partisan election law, which provides for no primary to weed out contenders, and usually produces enough can didates, to split the Curley opposition. Soliciting the anti-Curley vote this time was an ambitious aggregation which by last week had sifted down to Maurice J. Tobin (a member of the Boston School Committee), onetime (1926-29) Republican Mayor Malcolm Ex Nichols and Democratic District Attorney William J. Foley, besides two lesser candidates, one of whom withdrew his name too late...
...plant hormones already known are Auxins A and B and heteroauxin (TIME, Oct.11). Dr. Albert Francis Blakeslee, distinguished geneticist of the Carnegie Institution, reported discovery of a new plant hormone which he calls colchicine. It increases the growth rate of tobacco, phlox, onions, pumpkins, cosmos, radishes, portulaca, digitalis, jimson weed. The growth acceleration seems to be related to a doubling of certain segments of the chromosomes, heredity carriers in the germplasm. Colchicine also renders hybrid plants-which are normally sterile-fertile. Dr. Blakeslee pointed out that this action is as important in plant science as it would be in zoology...
...Hemingway followed this favorite sport that he was elected (November 1935) vice president of the Salt Water Anglers of America, leading big-game fishermen's association; so earnestly that he now sends odd catches to Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences (where his good friend, Henry Weed Fowler, is chief ichthyologist). He is proud that a species of rosefish has been named Neomerinthe hemingwayi in his honor. His business trips are chiefly to Manhattan, where, shying away from tea-fighting literary circles, he sees only Scribners' Editor Max Perkins (whose decorous office framed the Hemingway-Max Eastman...
Last week, about three weeks after Rexford Tugwell's Resettlement Administration was liquidated by the Department of Agriculture, the N. E. C., long recognized as no flower but a cumbersome New Deal weed, was uprooted by an executive order of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Except for its Press Intelligence service, which may continue under another bureau, its personnel of 251 will cease functioning December...